Kenn Gibbs is one of 10 Young Memphians featured in our annual Young Memphis issue of Memphis Crossroads Magazine. We’ve asked each Young Memphian to submit a guest blog about their experience as a young professional in Memphis. Kenn is an entrepreneur and founder of Knoco, a startup educational software company. Here’s what Kenn had to say.

Kelly Earnest is one of 10 Young Memphians featured in our upcoming annual Young Memphis issue of Memphis Crossroads Magazine. We’ve asked each Young Memphian to submit a guest blog about their experience as a young professional in Memphis. Kelly works as the Director of Public Relations for The Peabody, promoting Memphis around the world. Here’s what Kelly had to say.

In a community generally recognized for rock ‘n’ roll, soul and rhythm and blues, one might think that the ivory tower world of fine arts could remain aloof. Not so in the Bluff City.

Over the past twenty-five years, Ballet Memphis has emerged as a unique and powerful element in the Memphis arts community due in no small part to the work of artistic director and CEO, Dorothy Gunther Pugh.

Yahoo! Inc. shocked observers this month when it named Marissa Mayer as its new CEO. Mayer, at 37-years-old, now is the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company. She’s also pregnant, and not just in that swollen-but-not-visibly-showing phase either. She’s eight months along.